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In addition to creating a table of contents, is there anything else you do with the ability to link to places within your documents? We want to make sure that we’re designing this feature to fit your needs as customers, so please let us know by leaving a comment! :)

I would also like to know the status of this feature. Will it be added soon? I am also trying to create a learning resource with videos and pdf files and it would be great to be able to organize the lessons by topic/application and navigate quickly to the section.

I am using Sway, in fact multiple Sways, to develop a learning platform to teach a particular subject. It would be great if there were a to build in links within the Sway and to specific sections of other Sways. A user could view content in one Sway and then link to a more detailed explanation, or an example in that Sway or another Sway and then use a return link to the place in the original Sway where they are working. That is a tantalizing possibility now that Sway sections are numbered.

Tried Sway for the first time. The first natural thing I wanted to do was to make it like interactive fiction where I could set the user off an a particular path of learning, depending on their choice. But ugh-oh, you can't. Deal Breaker. Not much use to me then.

Adding to want others are saying, this is very helpful feature to add to sway, apart from using it in presentation,s pictures, etc we could have project wise slides and have a common slide which will have hyperlink to project specific card/slide. For those using sway to generate status reports, a slide/card with summarized report can be the first slide, and can contain hyperlinks to specific month/weeks/day. Other way is if I have vacation pictures, one slide can display various categories of pictures, like night life, local culture, walk, sun set, sun rise etc. clicking on each of these categories will navigate to the individual set of pictures for the category. The same thing can be applied in resumes as well.

If we could link between sections of a Sway, it would mean we could build self-contained learning materials. So, a single Sway could house the entire content for a subject, without having to jump out to a separate sway, which is not ideal and makes the experience feel clunky and unfinished.

As many institutions have access to Sway within their accounts, it would be very useful, and popular.

Higher Education within the UK has a massive drive to make learning content more accessible, mobile-friendly, and most importantly, easy to create. Sway almost does this, and it could be used my many institutions for more than just presentation if the linking (or as others have said, a table of contents) within a Sway was possible.

Sway can be a pain to navigate if it has lots of cards and sections. I use it for school reports these are generally a big file, if I need to find key element linking the sections would be really useful!

Sway is for story-telling, and as is, it's great for telling mini-stories -- stories or messages that are short, uncomplicated, and with a singular, linear focus. Sway is not a PowerPoint -- i.e., used to support spoken stories... it's meant to stand alone as a resource to tell a story by itself, right?

Well, if people are independently engaging with the content -- i.e., if the story is left to tell itself, without a narrator -- you have to take into account how people will engage with it. They'll come in and have ideas about the content they want to find -- and want to skip to the relevant bits. They'll read some amazing point and what to see how it links back to something else previously stated. They'll want to engage content, experience it on their own terms... and that's not always linearly.

If you're using Sway to tell a complicated story (a collection of examples or a story OF stories, for instance) or if you'd want to use it like a timeline... you'd want to be able to click between "chapters" or important sections.

My company would love to use Sway to talk about our internal evolution over time. Many departments have done amazing things -- we'd want a place for them to tell their stories of how we've all grown.. but it'd be nice to either have a menu bar to jump between different stories there or a timeline to jump between progress at different points. So, as is, unless we want a single stream of 1000 clicks to see everything, Sway wouldn't be an option for us now, unfortunately. :-/

I would use it to create learning content or sales presentations. I'd prefer to create one Sway, then be able to click a link to take me to the appropriate content based on audience needs. Like a table of contents or index.

This is very much needed! Unless one has a short and linear "story" to tell, Sway can be quite limiting as is -- but it has such potential! If one could link to different parts of it OR have floating menu, it would be much more viable for more in-depth storytelling.

I agree, so you can move quickly from the start to a section further on as at the moment you have to move through the whole presentation forwards and backwards each time. Even providing a ruler/status bar at the bottom that shows how far through the presentation you are would be useful to quickly move and as an indication of where you are in the presentation.